Contents

• Introduction: Reinventing the Museum
• 1. The Gloom of the Museum (1917) / John Cotton Dana
• 2. What Is a Museum? (1942) / Theodore Low
• 3. A Twelve Point Program for Museum Renewal (1970) / Alma Wittlin
• 4. The Museum, a Temple or the Forum (1971) / Duncan F. Cameron
• 5. Rethinking the Museum: An Emerging New Paradigm (1990) / Stephen E. Weil
• 6. Museums in the Age of Deconstruction (1992) / Michael M. Ames
• 7. The Real Multiculturalism: A Struggle for Authority and Power (1992) / Amalia Mesa- Bains
• 8. "Hey! That’s Mine": Thoughts on Pluralism and American Museums (1992) / Edmund Barry Gaither
• 9. An Agenda for Museums in the Twenty-first Century (1999) / Harold Skramstad
• 10. The Contextual Model of Learning (2000) / John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking
• 11. The Museum’s Role in a Multicultural Society (1992) / Claudine K. Brown
• 12. Staying Away: Why People Choose Not to Visit Museums (1983) / Marilyn G. Hood
• 13. The Visitors’ Bill of Rights (2000) / Judy Rand
• 14. United States: A Science in the Making (1993) / C. G. Screven
• 15. Can Museums Be All Things to All People? Missions, Goals, and Marketing’s Role (2000) / Neil Kotler and Philip Kotler
• 16. Museum Exhibitions and the Dynamics of Dialogue (1999) / Kathleen McLean
• 17. Changing Practices of Interpretation (1997) / Lisa C. Roberts
• 18. Making Meaning Together: Lessons from the Field of American History (1993) / Lois H. Silverman
• 19. Is There Method in Our Madness? Improvisation in the Practice of Museum Education (1999) / Mary Ellen Munley
• 20. Mining the Museum: An Installation Confronting History (1993) / Lisa G. Corrin
• 21. Evaluating the Ethics and Consciences of Museums (1994) / Robert Sullivan
• 22. What Is the Object of This Exercise? A Meandering Exploration of the Many Meanings of Objects in Museums (1999) / Elaine Heumann Gurian
• 23. Collecting Then, Collecting Today: What’s the Difference? (2002) / Stephen E. Weil
• 24. Collections Planning: Pinning Down a Strategy (2002) / James B. Gardner and Elizabeth Merritt - - 25. Who Cares? Conservation in a Contemporary Context (1999) / Carole Milner
• 26. A Philosophical Perspective on the Ethics and Resolution of Cultural Properties Issues (1999) / Karen J. Warren
• 27. Deft Deliberations (1991) / Dan L. Monroe and Walter Echo-Hawk
• 28. Deaccessioning : The American Perspective (1991) / Marie C. Malaro
• 29. Creampuffs and Hardball: Are You Really Worth What You Cost or Just Merely Worthwhile? (1995) / Stephen E. Weil - - 30. The Well-Managed Museum (1989) / Stephen E. Weil and Earl F. Cheit
• 31. Museum Accountability: Laws, Rules, Ethics, and Accreditation (1991) / Willard L. Boyd
• 32. Toward a New Governance (1997) / John Carver
• 33. Institution-wide Change in Museums (1993) / Will Phillips
• 34. Persistent Paradoxes (1997) / Robert Janes